Posted on 06/21/2011 7:19:13 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Sin taxes are needed by all states.
Confused messages are sent by Liberals, always.
Ok, if the government is going to put these kinds of pictures on cigarette packs so we all have to see them, then I want to see the pictures of a dead osama bin laden!
I mean, if obama and his admin thinks it’s ok to show us dead bodies, then I want to see the dead body of bin laden.
I’m all for doing this if similar warnings are posted on other unhealthy items.
A Big Mac should come with a photo of a morbidly obese man having a heart attack.
A government check should have a picture of a welfare queen.
DU ought to come with a meter showing how many IQ points you lose for each hour surfing there.
I have mixed feelings about the weed. My mother was a hard core habitual smoker, one of two siblings in her family who were that way, and empirically it looks like it took a great toll on her life span -- she died at 57 of what was believed to be a coronary. Something similar happened to her hard-smoking brother at 59. The other two sisters lived to well over 70. Dad could take or leave it -- he'd smoke maybe two cigarettes at a party but not touch them at any other time. He perished of a bone cancer at 70, which would be difficult to tie to the occasional cigarettes.
It's best not to mess around with tobacco, but I'd sooner it, and other things whose consumption in quantity can have harmful health effects (like sugary and fatty foods), be kept well free of government interference.
touche!
Godless Statists would never think of posting graphic warning labels of AIDS victims outside of a San Francisco gay bathhouse.
That’s not liberal PC.
In that Bizarro World you can go to a taxpayer funded clean needle exchange clinic inject heroin in a smoke free environment.
I have an answer to this si$t. I wanted to make a fortune on this, but wanted to get this out for some enterprising freeper.
Simply make a very cheap condom (like a thin film) that can easily be placed over the pack. Disposable. Could have waterfalls, beauties, words like F You O, anything that makes the image you like.
Granted, smoking isn’t good, wish I could quit, but this morbid idea from the FDA will send some to the lawyers to sue. For hurting my kid. Just thing of the pack with FDA sick pic laying on a picnic table and some kid sees it. Or in a bar where you can smoke. Law suits galore.
My idea could be made in Texas (love that state) or China or anywhere that it is cheap. Less than a penny a pack. Ladies with purses will probably use cig cases, but guys want something easy, quick and no hassle to slide on. 100 for 50 cents. The tobacco co. probably already thought of this. Do you get my drift?
Thanks for the ping!
My cousin died today of a brain tumor at 42 years of age.
I am certain it must have been the ciggies.
thousands died driving their autos to work today, It must be the ciggies.
Nanny-ism is ridiculous and making tax payers pay for enforcement is tyranny
That sounds like an old “Honeymooners” joke about Ralph’s invention of glow in the dark wallpaper, which would do away with the need for lightbulbs.
Or Al Bundy’s shoe light.
Cigarette cases will make a comeback. Environmentalists will not be happy with the cigarette packs littering the street.
Law of unintended consequences.
Dang... How lucky am I that they put these warnings on the packages! Golly... I started smoking in the first place because I thought cigarettes were ~good~ for me. Imagine my surprise when I find out that they’re not!
Golly Gee Willikers!! I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
Piffle. What a cop-out.
If cigarettes are so bad, then BAN THEM. BAN TOBACCO. Otherwise, shut the F#@% up. Don’t just pretend to give s#!7. But of course, governments won’t do that. Why? Because government makes upwards of ten to twenty times the profit per pack that the cigarette companies do. Philip Morris makes between 15 and 25 cents a pack. The state of WA makes about four dollars a pack.
Who is “big tobacco” after all? Is it Philip Morris? Or is it the state?
Nanny-ism.
Think that is communism.
Sorry for your loss. Prayers are up for you.
>>> I don’t suppose we’ll ever see such warnings on condom packages..
Probably not since it wouldn’t make much sense. The condom prevents pregnancy and std transmission. But similar ghastly warnings on fast convertible sports cars sold to bald middle aged men, that would fit. And probably be entertaining as well.
Thank you. He was a good guy and served the US Army.
He had also just found The Gal of his life in the past 5 years
How about a picture of Helen Thomas on a beer can; "Warning, overconsumption of this product may result in waking up with someone resembling this photo."
But similar ghastly warnings on fast convertible sports cars sold to bald middle aged men, that would fit
I can see grossly overweight people on potato chips, Hersey bars, whip cream, etc. Maybe we could have hil or obamama in the pic. Really dislike this admin. Wish I can’t really say how I really feel.
Addiction on any substance depends on the individual. I did the tobacco route when I was younger because it was “cool”.
Cigs, pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco, etc. over about 4 years one at a time. Always hated it.
I was 20 and just stoppped.
>> “My cousin died today of a brain tumor at 42 years of age.
I am certain it must have been the ciggies.” <<
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I’ve become convinced that tobacco must be a real cure for cancer, since the only things that our govt attacks with vigor are those that are shown to cure cancer.
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